Rigid and non-rigid medical image registration methods Journal Article
| Author: | Dhawan, A. P. |
| Editor: | Song, Y. |
| Article Title: | Rigid and non-rigid medical image registration methods |
| Abstract: | Image registration is an important and usually necessary step in multi-dimensional multi-modality medical image analysis. Moreover, images from the same modality may be registered to study and analyse variability of a specific structure or information among a group of subjects to develop physiological models and computerised atlases. Multi-dimensional image registration is also an important step in therapeutic protocols including radiation treatment and evaluation. Recent advances in medical imaging and image analysis have accompanied with a number of rigid-body and non-rigidbody image registration methods and algorithms. This paper first briefly reviews some of the rigid and non-rigid image registration methods and then presents an integrated approach of rigid and elastic deformation methods suitable for dealing with registration of partially deformed and incomplete image datasets. |
| Keywords: | image analysis; medical imaging; radiation therapy; image registration; radiotherapy treatment; rigid transformation; non-rigid transformation; Affine transformation; principal axes transformation; elastic deformation; incomplete images; partially deformed images |
| Journal Title: | International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 2-3 |
| ISSN: | 1752-6418 |
| Publisher: | Inderscience Publishers |
| Date Published: | 2012-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 200 |
| End Page: | 219 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1504/IJBET.2012.046086 |
| PROVIDER: | manual |
| Notes: | - Special Issue on 4D Medical Imaging and 4D Radiation Therapy |
